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If you’ve been searching for how to become a lawyer in Canada, you’re not alone. It’s one of the most frequently asked questions among aspiring lawyers, internationally trained legal professionals and career changers alike.  While many people expect a straightforward answer, the reality is that how to become a lawyer… Click to Continue Reading.

Insight/Tips
How to become a lawyer in Canada: why there isn’t a single path 
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Sara Mainville is the program chair for the Certificate in Navigating Specific Claim program

Specific claims work has been a lifelong commitment for Sara Mainville. Long before her 2005 call to the bar, Mainville was part of her community’s land claim committee while attending high school in northwest Ontario. Even at that early stage, she already had her eye on the profession. “I always knew… Click to Continue Reading.

Instructor Profile
OsgoodePD program tackles the specific claims lifecycle with guidance from a lifelong expert
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Deji Omotosho came to Canada with an established legal career in Nigeria, including experience in prosecution. After completing the Canadian licensing process and beginning his legal career here, he started looking for opportunities to deepen his understanding of the Canadian legal system while continuing to work. Osgoode’s Professional LLM in… Click to Continue Reading.

Alumni Spotlight
Deji Omotosho on building an LLM around an evolving legal career
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Vida Mascarenhas, alumna of the part-time Professional LLM in Securities Law.

As Vida Mascarenhas moved into more senior compliance roles in asset management, the questions in front of her became harder to answer by simply identifying the relevant rule. Decisions could involve investor protection, market integrity, regulatory expectations and legitimate business objectives at the same time. She wanted to understand how… Click to Continue Reading.

Alumni Spotlight
Vida Mascarenhas on bringing legal reasoning into compliance leadership
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A new era of Canadian nation building projects could translate into a golden age for the country’s construction arbitration field. Bruce Reynolds, the co-Program Chair of Osgoode Professional Development’s National Forum on Construction Arbitration: Designing, Building and Presenting the Case, says that Prime Minister Mark Carney signalled his government’s intention to… Click to Continue Reading.

Program Spotlight
National Forum prepares the profession for a golden age of construction arbitration
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A comprehensive new certificate program will help lawyers get a handle on the entire secured debt lifecycle. The Osgoode Certificate in Commercial Lending, Enforcement and Restructuring brings together the transactional and disputes sides of the secured finance practice, leading attendees through the structuring, documentation and execution of a secured debt deal,… Click to Continue Reading.

Program Spotlight
How to make the deal and enforce it: Mastering the entire secured debt lifecycle
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